What Are You Doing Right Now
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller because we're 5 months into the year?
it's not funny when you try to rationally think about it.
it's a joke.
But I don't get the joke because 400 errors can be found by division into any year. A joke is only funny if it makes sense. If the joke depends on people "not getting it" and just laughing because they are confused, that's not a joke. I get not over analyzing jokes as they depend on a certain suspension of disbelief. But there has to be a basis for the joke in the first place. The core of this joke is that "5" is the magic number and by applying that magic number to the year, it becomes something funny.
But that the 5 is totally without foundation means that the foundation of the joke is missing. The suspension of disbelief would be understanding that you don't dig into that 2020 is arbitrary based on a randomly assigned calendaring system, that the number didn't always come out to be 2020, etc. We don't dig into that stuff for the joke. But the 5 is the joke. It's the whole joke. If the 5 isn't significant, the joke literally doesn't exist.
If you can reword the joke to be "did you know 404 can be dividied into any rational number?", that's not funny. And that there are tons and tons of error codes using HTML errors so every year has a joke like this makes it even less meaningful.
To make a joke like this would require...
- That the thing wrong with the year is related to the 404 error (missing / not found), not just being an error since essentially every number is an error. The joke only works if the specific error of 404 relates.
- That the modifier "5" be in some way significant to make it at least a perceived "coincidence."
That's just basic joke making.
You can see... the assumption about what would make this a joke takes so much work, it was all missed. A joke should be obvious, it should require tons of explanation to find what's supposed to be the funny part.
It was funny to me,
You over analyzed the joke. Bad joke or not I thought it was worth sharing, apparently I was wrong.I chuckled.
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Trying out a CLI app called Magic-Wormhole
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just had Comcast half do a port of a phone number so that they no longer accept the calls, but they are refusing to update their records so instead of the calls going to the new carrier, Comcast delivers a "this number has not been allocated" message and blocks the calls from going on. They are aware of the issue and said that they are "too busy" to bother fixing it. So they are literally extorting the customer's business for having left them.
Had something similar happen to us... I think our issue was gross incompetence as it happened during a failed internal carrier service migration.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
back in the office for the first time this morning..
any guesses how long i'll be by myself today ?Either too long or not long enough.
Not long enough ,
I've already been told that I should have been here last week by someone in the corporate office.I have been in the office every work day since the quarantine started, but usually for only an hour or less. But I'm the only one on the 5th floor when I'm here, and there are probably less than 10 people total in the whole building.
Well as you might remember, my Son's mom's boyfriend came in contact with a person who tested positive.
He was around my son after being exposed, and his mom was exposed. then around my son as well.
So we did a mandatory 2 week quarantine as instructed by doctors.
and I'm getting lash backs from the corporate office - basically challenging my reason for staying home.@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
back in the office for the first time this morning..
any guesses how long i'll be by myself today ?Either too long or not long enough.
Not long enough ,
I've already been told that I should have been here last week by someone in the corporate office.I have been in the office every work day since the quarantine started, but usually for only an hour or less. But I'm the only one on the 5th floor when I'm here, and there are probably less than 10 people total in the whole building.
Well as you might remember, my Son's mom's boyfriend came in contact with a person who tested positive.
He was around my son after being exposed, and his mom was exposed. then around my son as well.
So we did a mandatory 2 week quarantine as instructed by doctors.
and I'm getting lash backs from the corporate office - basically challenging my reason for staying home.Tell them that you stayed home in an attempt to prove or disprove you had the virus, however you've not been able to get a definitive answer from your doctor (or whoever it is that says you're ok/not ok) telling you you don't have it.
Then mention you're happy to speak with them face to face to about it.
Then see what they say.
Oh and don't forget to cough.
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first day i have to go back to work and everyone here turns up starts typing stuff
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller because we're 5 months into the year?
it's not funny when you try to rationally think about it.
it's a joke.
But I don't get the joke because 400 errors can be found by division into any year. A joke is only funny if it makes sense. If the joke depends on people "not getting it" and just laughing because they are confused, that's not a joke. I get not over analyzing jokes as they depend on a certain suspension of disbelief. But there has to be a basis for the joke in the first place. The core of this joke is that "5" is the magic number and by applying that magic number to the year, it becomes something funny.
But that the 5 is totally without foundation means that the foundation of the joke is missing. The suspension of disbelief would be understanding that you don't dig into that 2020 is arbitrary based on a randomly assigned calendaring system, that the number didn't always come out to be 2020, etc. We don't dig into that stuff for the joke. But the 5 is the joke. It's the whole joke. If the 5 isn't significant, the joke literally doesn't exist.
If you can reword the joke to be "did you know 404 can be dividied into any rational number?", that's not funny. And that there are tons and tons of error codes using HTML errors so every year has a joke like this makes it even less meaningful.
To make a joke like this would require...
- That the thing wrong with the year is related to the 404 error (missing / not found), not just being an error since essentially every number is an error. The joke only works if the specific error of 404 relates.
- That the modifier "5" be in some way significant to make it at least a perceived "coincidence."
That's just basic joke making.
You can see... the assumption about what would make this a joke takes so much work, it was all missed. A joke should be obvious, it should require tons of explanation to find what's supposed to be the funny part.
Ah fooey. It's people like you that killed Vaudeville.
Laughter is good, light heartedness is good, there are so many things in life that don't warrant thought and consideration, that joke was one of them, if it's found amusing then great, if not move on.
I actually thought this year was going to be the year of the optometrist.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I actually thought this year was going to be the year of the optometrist.
I don't see that as an option...
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I actually thought this year was going to be the year of the optometrist.
I don't see that as an option...
Yeah, everyone went a bit batty
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I actually thought this year was going to be the year of the optometrist.
Year of the optometrist: free glasses for everyone! :glasses:
Year of the optimist: the glasses are half full.
Year of the pessimist: 2020
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Working at office today but listening to Yakuza soundtrack on my new BeyerDynamic bluetooth headphones. They sound so good
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working at office today but listening to Yakuza soundtrack on my new BeyerDynamic bluetooth headphones. They sound so good
I replaced the ear cups on my Plantronics 8200 UC headset and it's like having a whole new pair.
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@Grey Ooh nice! I imagine if they are worn out then it will really affect sound quality.
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Playing with new Microsoft 365 updates, and by playing I mean troubleshooting silly user issues. Got one user trying to use the new dictation feature adn I do not think they understand it will not be a perfect copy.
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey Ooh nice! I imagine if they are worn out then it will really affect sound quality.
Sort of? Mostly they're just firmer against my head so they're blocking more noise. The ear cup replacement was just the foam/leatherette part, so no electronics.
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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing with new Microsoft 365 updates, and by playing I mean troubleshooting silly user issues. Got one user trying to use the new dictation feature adn I do not think they understand it will not be a perfect copy.
I've used that and the biggest barrier is a good mic with no ambient noise.
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@Grey Users always skimp on the mics around here.
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey Users always skimp on the mics around here.
We used to deploy mics similar to https://shop.nuance.com/store/nuanceus/en_US/Content/pbPage.speech-mike for the radiologists to use with Dragon. If your users are on a laptop mic or anything less than a boom mic (I switch from my 8200 to my Plantronics Focus UC for this reason), then the sound quality is too low.
Be sure to run through the speech learning process.
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@Grey Excellent process!
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Just saw this tool and am playing with it. I like it.
http://speed.cloudflare.com/
